Connecticut House passes resolution to allow early voting in the state.

A divided state House of Representatives Thursday approved a resolution calling for a referendum on a constitutional amendment to allow early voting in Connecticut.

The House voted 81 to 65 to back the amendment — with three Republicans joining 78 Democrats — but, even if the Senate concurs, the earliest that state residents might have more than a single day to cast ballots would be in 2020.

That’s because 75 percent of the members in both chambers would have had to approve the proposal to place it before voters in a referendum this year. If the Senate approves the amendment, the General Assembly would have to vote for it again in 2019 or 2020 to put it on the ballot for the state election in 2020.

If voters approved the amendment, legislators in the 2020 or 2021 session would consider a measure setting rules for early voting in November of that year.

Early voting would give constituents options that take into account their busy, hectic schedules, said Rep. Daniel J. Fox, D-Stamford, the co-chair of the Government Administration and Elections Committee, which sent the amendment to the House floor.

Republicans repeatedly called early voting an unnecessary expense for municipalities and criticized the proposal as half baked.



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